My question is why does on one correct her?
We correct her. She hasn't "gotten away" with anything. Those days are over. Anyone who cares, or is capable of listening to reason, already knows by now that this issue is being grossly misrepresented to exploit ignorance and emotion. With the massive and pervasive stimulus of news media and social media, there are few true fence sitters. You have the informed/active, and the apathetic/passive. Obviously far more passives than actives. And they will not join either side, unless something happens to
force them to take sides. The banners desperately hope that thing is Sandy Hook, and that it jars the ignorant masses from their stupor long enough to blindly stand against the arguments of gunowners and Constitutionalists as the Assault Weapons Ban is rammed through Congress.
The problem is, The Ban appears to have rallied gunowners more than they expected, and the banner's voice is no longer the loudest. This is Feinstein et. al.'s last hurrah. There are no "junior senators" offering to devote their entire careers to gun-grabbing. This is the end of the road (well, at least the paved portion). If we stop them here, what else do they have? What resources? The Brady Campaign was practically dead before this last go-around. Gun ownership (and evil guns) are at record highs and increasing. Gun rights are expanding. The momentum was on our side before Sandy Hook, and I believe it
still is (despite what DC has convinced itself of).
The ban can only pass at the expense of the careers of a huge number of politicians, local to national, who have
any connection or complicity. If stopped, the ban goes back to the annual crack-pot ritual it was until today. Whatever happens, we are witnessing the death throes of the 20th century gun-control movement. My prediction is the banners will opt for a defensive strategy; passing infringements they so crave in the few places they can get away with it now (like NY), so as to cement what little power they have remaining and avoid total irrelevance.
TCB
It’s called rationalization; the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason.
You know, like cramming two puzzle pieces together to make them fit--only with
laws